This Booker-prize winning novel of Ian McEwan is a fully realized black comedy. It is about four men who became lovers of Molly Lane: Clive Linley, a famous of composer; Vernon Halliday, the editor-in-chief of Judge; Julian Garmony, the foreign secretary; and George Lane, the husband of Molly. It is about how Vernon and Clive turned their friendship into a viscious hate and revenge.